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Man arrested in raid says authorities are harassing him
* Larry Anderson, out on bail on drug accusations, claims officials are
trying to push him off his property to build a health clinic
Tuesday, October 6 1998
By Maxine Bernstein
of The Oregonian staff
Larry Anderson, owner of a North Portland house and motorcycle shop raided
by narcotics detectives last week, vowed Monday to fight the drug and child
neglect accusations he faces, claiming police are harassing him.
Anderson, 50, contends law enforcement is trying to push him from the
property, which Multnomah County has been coveting for several years as a
site for a new health clinic.
"This is part of the leverage they use to negotiate," Anderson said shortly
before his arraignment Monday on accusations he was in possession of
methamphetamine and explosives. "They want my property."
Anderson is free on bail. A grand jury will hear the case Oct. 12.
Portland police on Monday defended their actions. Multnomah County officials
Monday called Anderson's claim fallacious.
"That is completely erroneous. We have nothing to do with the operation of
the Portland Police Bureau. I can't refute that strongly enough," said Eddie
Campbell, a spokesman for Beverly Stein, chairwoman of the Multnomah County
Board of Commissioners.
Friday's police raid revived memories of a 1979 police drug-bust-gone-bad at
Anderson's property that ended with the fatal shooting of a Portland police
officer, and the resignations of three narcotics detectives who lied to
obtain their search warrant. During that raid 19 years ago, Anderson owned
the property, but did not live on the site.
"That was a different time. This is a different case," said Officer Henry
Groepper, a Portland Police Bureau spokesman.
Portland narcotics detectives obtained a warrant to search Anderson's home
at 9014 N. Lombard St. on Friday based on a prior methamphetamine buy that a
confidential informant made at the home. Anderson said his house is an
eight-room boarding home.
Shortly after noon, two Portland police officers posing as construction
workers caught Anderson's attention. Anderson stepped outside his house to
talk to the two men, who were wearing hard hats and appeared to be doing
work on the sidewalk. After chatting for a few moments, the two men
identified themselves as Portland police and took Anderson into custody.
Anderson yelled to his wife, who was by the front door of the house, to call
his lawyer. She ran inside and boarded up the door behind her, Anderson
said. Teams of Portland police, assisted by Washington County SWAT team,
entered the house and adjacent motorcycle shop, and fatally shot Anderson's
four Rottweilers, police and witnesses said.
Police described the animals as attack dogs. Anderson said they were a mama
and three pups.
Police said they found a small amount of drugs, several explosive devices
and numerous guns inside the home and shop but have not identified exactly
what was confiscated. A police report was not available Monday, said
Detective Sgt. Cheryl Kanzler, a bureau spokeswoman.
According to Anderson, investigators located drug residue in a small plastic
bag on the floor of his office in his motorcycle parts shop. The explosive
devices, he said, included a fuse connected to a film canister, a railroad
signaling device, the top part of a practice grenade, and a pyrotechnic
strobe light. Among the guns seized were six rifles, one shotgun and five
handguns from his motorcycle shop, Anderson said.
"I've been a gun collector since grade school," he said.
He is accused of distribution of a controlled substance, possession of a
controlled substance, three counts of possession of a destructive device,
two counts of manufacturing a destructive device and one count of child
neglect. The state took Anderson's 2-year-old child, who was at home at the
time of the raid, into protective custody.
The 5,000-square-foot parcel Anderson owns at the intersection of North
Lombard Street and North New York Avenue is the one remaining piece of
property standing in the way of the county's plans to build a new community
health clinic on that block.
"His is the missing piece on the block -- the land that we need for the
clinic building," said Robert Oberst, Multnomah County property manager.
The county has been negotiating with Anderson for more than two years to buy
the property, but the sides have not agreed on a sale price. Anderson said
Monday he will not budge unless the county can arrange a suitable land
exchange, providing him with a similar home and business building elsewhere.

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:01:17 -0700
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Subject: MN: US CA: City Ponders Medical Marijuana Zones: Panel To Consider
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Pubdate: Tue, 6 Oct 1998
Source: Sacramento Bee (CA)
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Author: Tony Bizjak Bee Staff Writer
CITY PONDERS MEDICAL MARIJUANA ZONES:
PANEL TO CONSIDER WHERE PATIENTS CAN SMOKE POT
When and where is it OK for a medical patient to smoke medicinal
marijuana in public?
A Sacramento City Council committee will debate that question
today.
The council's law and legislation committee is scheduled to look over
a proposal for a new city law that would ban medicinal marijuana
smokers from puffing within 100 feet of any person or building, such
as a restaurant or office.
The ban would extend to 1,000 feet around schools, and possibly around
other places children congregate, such as the city zoo, officials said.
Ryan Landers, a local medicinal marijuana advocate, said he plans to
testify that the law violates patients' rights because it is too
restrictive. At least one council member, Darrell Steinberg, said he
supports the idea, but will express some concerns as well.
The proposed law, drawn up by the city attorney and police at the
request of City Councilman Robbie Waters, is less restrictive than one
passed last year by the county Board of Supervisors. That law bans the
smoking of medicinal marijuana anywhere in public. It applies in any
unincorporated areas of the county.
The city of Sacramento has been wrestling with the issue since Landers
was arrested last year for smoking marijuana on the K Street Mall.
Landers, who is HIV positive, said he smokes marijuana to ease nausea
and work up an appetite. He has a doctor's approval to do so.
Proposition 215, passed by California voters in 1996, makes it legal
to smoke medicinal marijuana and to cultivate small amounts of it for
medical use.
Amid confusion over the law, the charges against Landers were dropped.
That led Waters, a former Sacramento County sheriff, to seek a law
limiting the smoking of marijuana in public.
Waters and others have argued that smoking marijuana in public sends a
wrong message to children, who may not understand the medicinal aspects.
"The idea is not to take legitimate uses away from people," he said.
"We want to keep this from escalating to where people are smoking
marijuana on bus stop benches."
Police Capt. Ernie Daniels said city officials are trying to adhere to
the spirit of Proposition 215, but notes in a report to the council:
"The ingestion of medicine, especially one that disperses smoke into
the surrounding area, should be a private matter and not a public display."
Steinberg said he thinks the proposed ordinance's limitations are
reasonable, but he is disappointed that the ordinance doesn't address
a request he made to look into a way some health-related organizations
can be given the OK to cultivate marijuana for patients.
Steinberg said he thinks the city should help medicinal marijuana
users legally. "I would not favor a Cannabis Club because of the
potential for abuse, but I would look for a partnership with a
health-related facility to make sure there is no abuse," he said.
Landers said the ordinance allows medicinal marijuana users almost no
place to smoke when they are out of their homes.
"At 10 feet away, you are definitely not going to breath marijuana
smoke," he said. "If the person is discreet, kids are not even going
to realize what is going on."
The committee hearing is scheduled for 12:15 p.m. today at City Hall.
The committee is as an advisory body to the full council, which will
take up the matter at a later date if it passes the committee.

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Subject: Two Amish men plead guilty in conspiracy to sell cocaine
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:06:04 -0700
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Two Amish men plead guilty in conspiracy to sell cocaine
by Dan Robrish
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Two Amish men have pleaded guilty to conspiring to sell
cocaine to fellow members in a case that threw a spotlight on how modern-day
problems are encroaching on the sect's simple way of life.
Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, and Abner Stoltzfus, 24, could get five to 40
years in prison and up to $2 million fines. No sentencing date was set. The
men are not related; Stoltzfus is a common name among the Amish.
Prosecutors said that from 1992 to 1997, the two men bought cocaine from a
Philadelphia-area motorcycle gang called the Pagans, then sold the drugs to
Amish youth. Eight members of the Pagans also have been charged.
The accusations shook Lancaster County's 22,000 conservative Old Order
Amish, who isolate themselves from the outside world and shun modern
conveniences. They ride horse-drawn buggies and dress in plain, black
clothes.
Some Amish acknowledged that the sect has had to grapple with alcohol and
marijuana problems for a decade. But word of Amish young people using hard
drugs prompted the community's bishops to send a letter to all the churches,
warning about cocaine.
At the time of their indictment, the Stoltzfuses were participating in a
"timeout," a period during which young Amish men and women are allowed to
explore the outside world and decide whether to join the church. Both men
intended to join, their lawyers said.

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Court Lets Indiana Schools' Drug Tests Stand (The Washington Post version
of yesterday's news about the US Supreme Court leaving intact a federal
appeals court ruling allowing a public high school in Rushville, Indiana, to
require urine tests for all students involved in extracurricular activities.)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 19:00:56 -0700
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Subject: MN: US: Court Lets Indiana Schools' Drug Tests Stand
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Pubdate: Tue, 6 Oct 1998
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Author: Joan Biskupic
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COURT LETS INDIANA SCHOOLS' DRUG TESTS STAND
The Supreme Court yesterday let an Indiana high school continue
requiring students to take drug tests if they want to participate
inextracurricular activities, even if they are not suspected of using
drugs.
The justices, on the first day of their new term, refused to take up
an appeal of a lower ruling that said schools may force students to
provide urine samples under monitored conditions as a way of deterring
illegal drugs. Lawyers for parents and students who had protested the
ruling said it "represents a significant and unwarranted erosion of"
students' privacy rights and protection against unreasonable searches.
But school officials in Rush County, Ind., called the program a
reasonable, effective way to curb drug use, particularly before it
reaches epidemic proportions.
The high court rejected the appeal without comment, and while the
denial sets no national precedent, civil libertarians said the action
would embolden public schools to step up the wide-scale use of drug
tests.
"This is an issue being faced by school districts all over the
country," said Kenneth J. Falk of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union.
"I certainly think schools now will go as far as the [Rush County
policy] goes. But more guidance is needed from the court" on a
national standard.
When the Supreme Court last ruled on student drug testing, in 1995, it
permitted an Oregon drug testing policy that was confined to student
athletes. The Indiana policy applies not only to sports activities but
to everything from the school Library Club to the Future Farmers of
America.
All told, the justices acted on more than 1,600 appeals that had been
filed during their summer recess. But the drug testing case was one of
the most closely watched because it arises from nationwide efforts by
schools to steer students away from drugs, in part through increased
urinalysis testing. Such policies, particularly when used on students
not suspected of drug use, invoke Fourth Amendment protections against
unreasonable searches, and parents and students have repeatedly
challenged the tests in courts.
In the Rush County schools case, William P. and Diana J. Todd sued the
school district on behalf of their son, William Matthew, a freshman
who volunteered to videotape the football team at after-school events.
In rejecting the Todds' challenge to the mandatory drug testing, the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, which covers Illinois,
Indiana and Wisconsin, said, "[S]uccessful extracurricular activities
require healthy students." The court's three-judge panel said the
program was similar enough to the Oregon athletes' drug-testing
requirement that the Supreme Court upheld in 1995.
The full 7th Circuit refused to hear the case, with dissenting
justices asserting that "the broad-brushed reading of" the high
court's 1995 ruling "takes us a long way toward condoning drug-testing
in the general school population."
In another school's case, the justices rejected an appeal by a North
Carolina drama teacher who had been disciplined by a school board for
putting on a controversial play depicting a dysfunctional family.
Separately yesterday, the justices announced they will hear a new case
testing how easy it should be for disabled workers to sue their
employers for discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act
when the workers also receive Social Security disability benefits. A
federal appeals court ruled that if a worker receives disability
benefits, a judge should presume that the worker is barred from
claiming she is a "qualified individual with a disability" and
entitled to sue an employer for bias.
The case involves a woman named Carolyn Cleveland, who worked for
Policy Management Systems Corp. until she suffered a stroke and had
trouble speaking. Cleveland applied for Social Security disability
benefits, but after a few months she was able to return to work. She
notified the Social Security Administration of her changed condition.
Cleveland claimed the company failed to make several accommodations,
including computer training, to help her do her job. Finally, she was
fired.
She reapplied for benefits and also sued the company for
discrimination. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against
Cleveland, pointing out the inconsistency in a person saying they are
totally disabled and unable to work, and then saying they are able to
perform the essential functions of a job if only the proper
accommodations are made. For those who have once claimed to be totally
disabled, the court said, the bar for making a claim under the ADA
should be higher.
That ruling conflicts with more lenient standards set by other courts,
and the justices will resolve the split in the case of Cleveland v.
Policy Management Systems Corp.

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Amnesty International targets US penal system (The Reuters version of
Sunday's news about the international human rights organization making the
United States the focus of its next one-year campaign. Among other things,
Amnesty International's 153-page report, "Rights for All," says prison
overcrowding is largely the result of long sentences for drug offenders, and
has brought a shift in emphasis from rehabilitation to punishment and
incapacitation.)
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Amnesty International targets U.S. penal system
By Jonathan Wright
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The human rights group Amnesty
International launched Tuesday a one-year campaign for penal
reform in the United States, which has more prisoners known to
be awaiting execution than any other country.
The group called on U.S. authorities to abolish the death
penalty for juveniles, ban restraint devices such as stun belts,
stop jailing asylum seekers and set up independent bodies to
investigate allegations of police brutality.
In ``Rights for All,'' a 153-page report released for the
campaign launch, Amnesty said it saw a ``persistent and
widespread pattern of human rights violations.''
``Across the country thousands of people are subjected to
sustained and deliberate brutality at the hands of police
officers. Cruel, degrading and sometimes life-threatening
methods of restraint continue to be a feature of the U.S.
criminal justice system,'' it added.
``In U.S. prisons and jails, inmates are physically and
sexually abused by other inmates and by guards... Sanctions
against those responsible for these abuses are rare,'' it said.
A State Department official answered that the United States
welcomed scrutiny by Amnesty but believed that its political and
judicial systems were ``the envy of the world.''
The report said prison guards restrain the inmates with
electric shock stun guns, leg irons, pepper spray and restraint
chairs. Some women prisoners have given birth in shackles.
Amnesty International said it calculated that U.S. prisons
for adults also hold at least 3,500 child convicts in violation
of an international convention on civil rights.
People convicted for crimes committed as children can even
face the death penalty, putting the United States in the same
category as Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
U.S. states have executed more than 460 prisoners since the
Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Unlike in
most industrialized countries, the trend is toward more and more
executions. About 3,300 people wait on death row.
Some of those executed have been mentally disabled. Blacks
who kill or rape whites are far more likely to face execution
than if the criminals are white or their victims black.
``The death penalty is often enacted in vengeance, applied
in an arbitrary manner, subject to bias because of the
defendant's race or economic status, or driven by the political
ambitions of those who impose it,'' the report said.
A similar pattern emerges for the country's 1.7 million
prisoners, over 60 percent of whom are from racial or ethnic
minorities. Half of them are African Americans, who make up 12
percent of the overall population.
Overcrowding, largely the result of long sentences for drug
offenses, has brought a shift in emphasis from rehabilitation to
punishment and incapacitation, Amnesty said.
Prisons have cut education and some have removed exercise
equipment and restricted leisure activities, it added.
Some states have tried to save money by sending prisoners to
jails run by private companies, where many experts believe
inmates are more likely to face mistreatment, it said.
Amnesty said the U.S. penal authorities break international
agreements in two ways -- by detaining foreign asylum seekers
without sufficient reason and by denying consular access to
foreigners arrested by the police.
It cited cases of asylum seekers spending more than a year
in detention alongside convicted criminals. Sometimes the guards
punish them for minor violations of rules which have never been
explained to them, it said.
The State Department official said the U.S. immigration
authorities ``make every effort to balance legitimate law
enforcement responsibilities with equally important humanitarian
concerns.'' He would not elaborate.
In one case that hit the headlines earlier this year, the
state of Virginia ignored an International Court of Justice
order to suspend plans to execute Paraguayan citizen Angel
Breard, who had been denied consular access on arrest.
The report quoted a retired senior police officer as saying
that in 47 years in law enforcement, he had never seen anything
from the State Department or the FBI on the Vienna Convention,
which contains the consular access provision.
The organization urged the U.S. government to recognize the
primacy of international human rights laws, saying it was not
enough to depend solely on the U.S. constitution.
``Human rights standards have evolved, and today the level
of human rights protection recognized in U.S. law falls short of
some of the minimum standards set down in human rights
treaties,'' the report said.
Amnesty also urged the U.S. government to impose stricter
controls on exports of equipment to foreign police forces.
REUTERS

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